As violence in the hemisphere's poorest nation intensifies, a crackdown on migrants in its nearest neighbor draws criticism from the United Nations and others.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Impoverished Haiti, beset by spreading gang violence, worsening hunger and now cholera, is hemorrhaging refugees.ArrowRight
Some migrants and their advocates see an element of racism in the policy. The U.S. State Department has warned American travelers that the crackdown “may lead to increased interaction with Dominican authorities, especially for darker-skinned U.S. citizens and U.S. citizens of African descent.
Bridget Wooding, director of the Observatory of Caribbean Migrants, said that “deportations are episodically used in the Dominican Republic for political ends,” but that the current crackdown is notable for the numbers of people being swept up. was a 16-year-old Black girl who had been stopped on her way to school, despite being a Dominican citizen — evidence, he says, of “a racism component” in the removals.The developments are inflaming long-fraughtHaitians to the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic dates back more than a century. Haitians have long been employed — legally and otherwise — in low-wage jobs many Dominicans are loath to perform, particularly in construction and agriculture.
The government, such as it is, is led by Ariel Henry, appointed by Moïse two days before his death and now linked to a suspect in the still-unsolved plot to kill the president. But considerable power is wielded by the violent armed gangs that control much of Port-au-Prince. “It was clear that it was something against Haitians,” Azor said. “I guess that my gestures, the language we speak on the street made them see that we were Haitian. … It’s xenophobia.”
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